Director Adam Isenberg received the 2012 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award for his film A Life Without Words (Una Vida Sin Palabras) on Sunday, December 2, as part of the the closing celebrations of the 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival.

The documentary Sweet Dreams, playing at the Mead Film Festival on Saturday, December 1, is a story of firsts: the formation of the Rwanda’s first and only all-female drumming troupe, Ingoma Nshya, and the group’s effort to open Rwanda’s first ice cream shop, in some cases introducing the treat to people who have never before tasted ice cream.